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Raam Raj Foundation

To engage in all activities throughout the world that disseminate and support the understanding and application of maharishi vedic science and technology to fully develop life of the individual, community, national and world level, including, without limitation, creating world peace.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.6MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$424kHealth$75kInternational$29kCommunity Improvement$25k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $844,040, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,353,295 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $509,255 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $288k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maharishi Foundation International$500,000
Maharishi International University$178,100
Maharishi International University Foundation$60,000
David Lynch Foundation$50,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)$20,000
Mother Divine Program-Global Country World Peace$18,000
Maharishi Foundation$17,940
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MOTHER DIVINE-MGCWP: $147k → 16%Maharishi Foundation International: $500k → 14%MOTHER DIVINE-MGCWP: $115k → 16%Maharishi Foundation International: $300k → 14%MOTHER DIVINE-MGCWP: $100k → 16%BLISSFUL LIFE FOUNDATION: $300k → 14%Mother Divine Program-Global Country of World Peac: $44k → 16%Maharishi Foundation International: $230k → 14%Mother Divine Program-Global Country World Peace: $18k → 16%Maharishi Global Administration thru Natural Law: $15k → 16%Maharishi Foundation International: $100k → 14%BLISSFUL LIFE FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $504k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$346k · 69% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Promoting teaching of Vedic Education and activities related to the schools and universities in Latin America and in India. · Support

South Asia$128k · 25% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SUPPORT

Sub-Saharan Africa$19k · 4% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Scholarships for courses

Middle East and North Africa$10k · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SUPPORT

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 7 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$3.2M
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-17%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MF
    Maharishi Foundation International
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue ×13 · 83% of their budget
  • MI
    MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2024 · $667k · revenue +219%
  • MI
    MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $451k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • MP
    MAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue -1%
  • TF
    TED FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +12%
  • MG
    MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAWgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +154%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Maharishi University of Enlightenment

To provide consciousness - based educational programs including post secondary educational programs.

Religion
2
Maharishi Vedic Science and Technology Foundation

Maharishi vedic science and technology foundation (mvstf) is organized to provide programs that promote individual and societal peace, happiness, prosperity, and perfect health, by engaging in activities that increase and promote the…

Science & Tech
3
Global Country of World Peace

The organizations mission is to serve as a nonprofit organization organized and operated exclusively for educational charitable and scientific purposes making total knowledge of natural law as brought to light by maharishi mahesh yogi…

Science & Tech
4
Varasiddhi
Arts & Culture
5
University of Spiritual Research
Religion
6
International Buddhist Education Foundation
Education
7
Maharishi Integrated Health Foundation

As a supporting organization to support, benefit and carry out the purposes of publicaly supported organizations that are engaged in promoting the Transcendental Meditation program or other aspects of Maharishi Integrated Health

Health
8
Global Capital of World Peace

The Global Capital of World Peace, Inc (GCWPI) is organized to provide programs that help establish world peace. GCWPI will do this primarily by supporting the building and operating of residential meditation facilities to house and…

International
9
Science for Monks
Science & Tech
10
Mount Madonna Institute

Mount Madonna Institute, (MMI), teaches ancient knowledge and traditional practice from natural healing systems that integrate mind, body and spirit. Experienced faculty delivery degree and certificate programs on the 5000-year old science…

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11
The Institute of Buddha Dhamma Studies a Non Profit Corporation
Philanthropy
12
Sri Karunamayi Institute of Vedic Studies and Meditation Center

The very essence of spirituality and religion lies in understanding the depth of ancient wisdom, connecting to the divine, and achieving inner peace. our organization, rooted in the profound teachings of vedic scriptures and the practice…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ted Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Maharishi Foundation International: $1,490,000 · Human ServicesMaharishi Foundation InternationalMother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc: $424,000 · Human ServicesMother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $667,000 · EducationMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUN…MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $451,100 · EducationMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $40,000 · EducationMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $88,790 · OtherMAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM: $33,000 · OtherDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $75,000 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $28,500 · PhilanthropyTED FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Religion
Human Services$1,929,000Education$1,158,100Other$121,790Philanthropy$103,500Community Improvement$25,000Religion$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaharishi Foundation International: $1,490,000 over 6y, 83% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $667,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $451,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMother Divine Program-Maharishi Global Country of World Peace Inc: $424,000 over 6y, 94% of budgetMAHARISHI FOUNDATION USA INC: $88,790 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM: $33,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $28,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTED FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMIN THROUGH NATURAL LAW: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Schwartz Family Found…Invincibility Foundat…Ramani and Louise D A…The Rona and Jeffrey …Global Invincibility …The Wege FoundationVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Schwartz Family FoundationIA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Schwartz Family Foundation · Invincibility Foundation · Ramani and Louise D Ayer Family Foundation · The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation · Global Invincibility Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Raam Raj Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raam Raj Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Raam Raj Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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